Osho Mystic Rose

The enlightened Mystic Osho has invented many unique meditations to respond to the particular needs of modern man. The mystic rose meditation is one of his last contributions.
Osho says about this revolutionary meditation:

“I’m giving you a very fundamental technique, fresh and unused. I have invented many meditations, but perhaps this will be the most essential and fundamental one. It can take over the whole world. The first part will be laughter – for three hours, people simply laugh for no reason at all. And the second part is tears. The first part removes everything that hinders your laughter – all the repressions. It cuts them away. Digging for three hours you will be surprised how many layers of dust have gathered upon your being. It will cut them like a sword in one blow.
For seven years, continuously, three hours a day …you cannot conceive how much transformation can come to your being. The Mystic rose meditation is to become the major meditation at the ashram. It is the first major breakthrough since Vipassana 25 centuries ago.
The new meditation technique gets rid of the laughing and weeping beforehand so there is nothing left to suppress in the witnessing, and the witnessing simple opens a pure sky”. Osho

The Mystic rose is a powerful, playful, releasing and tender technique which goes beyond the mind directly to the unconscious.

Powerful because the structure immediately brings us in touch with our inhibitions, controls, seriousness and inability to laugh freely with the delight of a child. Digging past one barrier after another for seven days, we find the playfulness – the sheer joy of belly laughing at nothing in particular.
The release of tears after these seven days of laughter is overwhelming. We seem to have been carrying a lake of despair and misery which, when opened up, simply floods us for the next seven days. During the crying our hearts open, the eyes become and luminous, participants are vulnerable, open and tender.

During this first two weeks participants slow down, relax, become more centered and experience greater and more focused energy.

Laughter comes easily and nothing is taken very seriously. The tears help people to center themselves more quietly in their beings. It is as if people are dropping chunks of conditionings all around the room, and an opportunity arises to see what a disease seriousness is.
The “Watcher on the hill” phase is the culmination of it all. To meditate and gently dance for three hours a day, the last week is a perfect completion of this gift from a Master to his lovers.

“All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. Laughter and tears can do both. Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy. Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised: why has this not been told up to now? There is a reason: nobody has wanted humanity to have the freshness of a rose flower and the fragrance and the beauty.”